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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and surrogate for presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) John Bolton harshly criticized the Obama administration’s response to the violence in Benghazi, Libya earlier this month, calling the U.S. response “limp-wristed.”

The Bush appointee was speaking to Fox News on Friday when he used the homophobic insult, which, as Think Progress noted, is “usually used as a slur against or allusion to gay men” and to connote weakness.

“The US is viewed under Obama as weak, as Sen. McCain said, as declining in influence dramatically in the Middle East, pulling out of Iraq, intending to pull out of Aghanistan,” Bolton alleged, “having a limp wristed reaction to the assassination of four American diplomats.”

Bolton was joining a group of Republican Senators and other officials condemning the Obama administration for its foreign policy in the Middle East.

I think I just realized why liberals and Muslim terrorists get along so well. They are both easily offended over the simplest stupid words. I seriously think they look for something to be offended of. There is no other way to explain their stupidity.

I don't think limp-wristed, used in this way, is a homophobic slur. If it is, it's one that has been part of the general language for a long time.

Man, do these guys get upset watching "Revenge of the Nerds"? The black character is gay, and the jokes about his wrist are pretty funny-the nerds specially design a javelin for him to throw that takes his limp-wristed style of throwing into account.

It must be difficult to go through life being offended by everything you see and hear.

It must be difficult to go through life being offended by everything you see and hear.

On the contrary, it makes life so much easier if everybody around you is afraid to offend you. Your ideas are never challenged. You always get your way, and whenever you don't, you can scream racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, ageism, fascism or whatever you can come up with. The arguments don't have to be rational, in fact, it's better if they aren't, as that makes it even harder to accommodate the blind rage. Throw in compliant courts and institutions that repeat your grievances and you're set for life.

Originally Posted by Gina

Someone could make a fortune if they wrote a book listing all the off-limit words and people. Add it to the list.

That would make a great book. The Dictionary of the Forbidden. And, you can do a PC version of it, with blank pages.